The iPad’s ‘Ultimate Typing Accessory’ Is A Dud

Apple products are the boybands of tech hardware and fans go extra nuts when they see those beveled edges snuggled up against a sleek twisty stand or decked out in full-grain leather. So when designers put a sleek Apple add-on up for funding on Kickstarter, they often raise hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from salivating techies looking to dress up their iPad like a West Village Chihuahua.
The Touchfire was one such product, an iPad keyboard overlay that raised $200,000, twenty times its original Kickstarter goal, in a matter of weeks. Not only did it seduce Apple groupies by lovingly attaching to the tablet and its ubiquitous case, it also stood to solve one of the only real pain points of the iPad – clunky, awkward typing.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/07/11/the-ipads-ultimate-typing-accessory-is-a-dud/